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Author: emilymartin317
Surnames: Murphy, Williams, Keough
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Name: Bridget Murphy
Birthdate: 6 Oct 1832
Birthplace: County Wexford, Ireland
Death date: 9 Mar 1872
Death place: Virginia City, Storey Co, NV
Father: John N Murphy
Mother: Mary Keough
Siblings: Mary Murphy, Margaret Murphy, Peggy Murphy, Hannah Murphy, James Murphy,
Phillip J Murphy, Walter Murphy
Spouse: James Williams (?-?)
Marriage: 6 Apr 1864, Muscatine, IA
About:
[daughter] of John and Catherine ( Kehoe ) Murphy. His father died in 1879, at the age of
eighty-three years, and his mother departed this life about the same time, when
seventy-nine years of age. Their family numbered six children, three sons and three
daughters....Bridget, died in Virginia City, Nevada...
...came with his parents to America, and on Christmas Day, 1849, landed in New Orleans.
The party at once continued their journey to St. Louis, where they remained during the
winter of 1849-50, and the following spring came to Muscatine; the date of their arrival
being May 15.
Sources:
United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
Year: 1860; Census Place: Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa; Roll: M653_337; Page: 186; Image:
338.
Muscatine Co Courthouse marriage records
http://iagenweb.org/muscatine/marriages/marr1846m.htm
Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 556. Biography of
Phillip J Murphy.
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